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excavate

English

  1. 🔊 remove the inner part or the core of
    “the mining company wants to excavate the hillside”
  2. 🔊 form by hollowing
    “Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team”
  3. 🔊 find by digging in the ground
    “I dug up an old box in the garden”
  4. 🔊 recover through digging
    “Schliemann excavated Troy”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cavar to excavate, dig
  2. 🔊 excavar to excavate, dig

Similar words

dig hollow dig up turn up unearth avulse bore bring to light bring up burrow clear countersink cut out deepen delve depress deracinate dig dig out dig up dike disclose disentangle disinter